Results 22,061-22,080 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: On a point of order, are we clear on who is included under 5a?
- Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Fine.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Very profound questions have been tabled by Deputies and put to the House on the accountability of a Government that does not command a majority in this House. The issue of parliamentary questions has been raised. The solution put forward that we would have policy debates and make policy determinations in the absence of a new Government is fundamentally flawed. We have to have a new...
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I listened carefully to everything that was said. I believe that saying that we respect other people's point of view is more than rhetoric. Everybody is entitled to a view on this. This House has a responsibility to elect an accountable Government with all speed. The notion that we can have fundamental policy debates that alter national policy without a Government or without knowing the...
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: If the House is in a position to take such a proposal, that would be a good thing.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Yes, absolutely.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Absolutely.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I agree.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I do not believe it would be useful, were Members not in that position, to go through four, five or six more votes if they were all going to be inconclusive, but the provision should be there. If somebody is in a position to believe he or she would carry it, the facility should be on the Order Paper to do that.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Members have not seen it.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Only Sinn Féin is important.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Can we see the motion?
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: If Sinn Féin wants to vote on it, let us see it.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: This is play acting now.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: This is bullying.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: On what?
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: If this is Sinn Féin's idea of reform-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Hear, hear.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Tuesday week.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Hear, hear.